Student Supervision

1. Francisco Beltrán is a PhD student workin on a project sponsered by NOAA in collaboration with the Southwest Fisheries Science Center to produce climate indexes relevant for stock assessment in the Norther Pacific.
2. Ricardo Lemos is a PhD student at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, working on the use of statistical space-time models for the estimation of oceanic climatologies. Even though I am not formally his advisor, I supervise the statistical aspects of his work.
3. Luis Acevedo-Arreguin worked on a project sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to estimate the intensity of non-homegeneous Poisson processes in the plane with time-varying intensities. This work was in collaboration with Herbie Lee. Luis Graduated in June 2008.
4. Daniel Zantedeschi worked on a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to improve the estimation of climate system properties using a 2D climate model developed at MIT. This work was done in collaboration with Chris Forest from MIT. He completed his MS in July 2008.
5. Aline Nobre is a former PhD student from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that I co-supervised with with Prof. Alexandra Schmidt, from that university. She worked on a new class of spatio-temporal models and applications to pollution data on the region of Rio. She graduated in July 2007.
6. Charles Curry Worked on a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to improve the estimation of climate system properties using a 2D climate model developed at MIT. This work is in collaboration with Chris Forest from MIT. He graduated as a MS in June 2007.
7. Christofer Wong worked on a project sponsored by CISCO. He used dynamic linear models to forecast the workload produced by the demand of support services. He graduated as a MS in December 2006.
8. Weining Zhou worked on a project sponsored by Los Alamos National Lab that consisted on doing a statistical calibration of a computer simulator of a protons beam. This work is joint with David Higdon from LANL and Herbie Lee from AMS. She also worked on the problem of comparing output from chemical transport models subject to different initial and boundary conditions. She graduated as a PhD in December 2006.
9. Xing Ji worked on a Master project in collaboration with Lisa Sloan's Paleoclimate and Climate Change group. The goal of the project was to study the impact of climate change on the distribution of oaks in California. Xing graduated in June 2005.
10. Aracelis Hernández did her PhD thesis on rainfall models for the Caroní basin, an area where EDELCA produces 80% of the Venezuelan electricity using hydro-powered plants. Aracelis focused on the characterization of the extreme values of rainfall and the influence of macro weather variables over the area. This work was supervised in collaboration with Lelys Bravo de Guenni from CESMa USB. Aracelis graduated in March 2005.
11. Giselle Álvarez did her PhD thesis on the characterization and prediction of the properties of an oil reservoir from well logs and seismic traces using wavelets. This was a project sponsored by INTEVEP the R&D division of the Venezuelan Oil Industry developed on collaboration with Reinaldo Michelena from INTEVEP. Giselle graduated in March 2003.
12. Lisbeth Betancourt did her Master project on models for rainfall in South-East Venezuela and its association with El Niño. This work was supervised in collaboration with Lelys Bravo de Guenni from CESMa USB. Lisbeth graduated in April 2000.